Ashley, Richard. "Structure." In Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia, edited by William F. Thompson, 1074-1075. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2014. doi: 10.4135/9781452283012.n372.

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To speak of the structure of music is to speak of how sounds are organized to be recognized by humans as music, rather than some other kind of sound. This organization of musical sounds—musical structure—is the basis on which all musical ...

Ashley, Richard. "Structure." In Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia, edited by William F. Thompson, 1074-1075. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2014. doi: 10.4135/9781452283012.n372.